"The mission of the Hope Elementary School community is to provide all students with a strong foundation of knowledge and skills by creating a safe and nurturing environment to become responsible, successful and contributing citizens in a continually changing world."
When you researched the community and district, you were provided tables to help with the task of making sense of the various graphs available on Information Works site. For your school report, you should make sense of the data one your own. Remember that you can email your instructor if you have any difficulties.
To research your school, you should consider the questions about schools that we brainstormed in class and decide on some questions that YOU think should be answered in your description of your school You should research at least four of the indicators on the school report page for your school to gather information that you feel will serve as evidence for your description.
Questions that you would like to find answers for:
~What is the environment like inside the school?
classroom/academic/learning
social
safety
~Location?
~Student:faculty?
~Demographics?
gender
race
SES (poverty)
~Funding?
~Extra Curricular Activities- Music, Arts, Sports
~Special Programs (voacational, arts, etc.)
~Facilities (good/bad, Age Access, Conditions: # of janitors on staff, cleanliness)
Performance Progress for all Test Grades in Rhode Island Elementary
Math
Reading
Writing
05-06
52
60
55
06-07
56
65
51
07-08
57
66
54
Summary statement: The highest percentages recorded for all the grade levels mainly fall in the proficient category. These graphs show the students at Hope Elementary to have average performance levels on the state exams. Proficient is said to be about average or slightly higher than the set average.
Summary statement: Overall this is a high performing school. It meets all of the standards set by the state and well beyond them. The students seem vigorous to learn based on their performance level.
There are also no students receiving bilingual services,
Summary statement: The race and ethnicity of the students at Hope Elementary is mostly white with only 1% being Asian. This information can be based on the race and ethnicity found in Scituate as a whole. The majority of the people residing in Scituate are white and just a few are Asian or African American,
The teachers at Hope Elementary seem to work well with one another and with their students. The majority of the teacher at this school seem to agree with this statement. 80% of students seem to think that the teachers take a personal interest in them.
Most of the students seem to get along with each for the most part. There are 25% of the students at Hope that said that they have trouble getting along with other students.
About 75% of students said that they feel like they have a sense of belonging in school.
About 95% of parents feel that the school views parents as important partners.
Summary statement: Overall at Hope Elementary school the students and parents feel involved and the teachers get along well with one another. The majority of the student population get along well with the other students there is a small portion that does not,
B. SALT Reports
In addition to survey data reported in Information Works, the SALT Surveys and the SALT visit report provides an "on the ground" description of what a group of visiting evaluators found while visiting the school for several days. After learning more about the SALT cycle from the link above, review the most recent report for your school and summarize what you find:
Data of last SALT visit: 1999-2000
Notes from Teacher Surveys: (2007-2008)
Teachers gave a 4.3 out of 5.0 on positive work climate (most of the time) [6]
About 3/4 of the teachers that teach at Hope have a masters degree and the rest have a bachelors degree
Most of the teachers have experience mostly in just elementary school[7]
Teachers contact parents several times a year at Hope to keep them up to date with their child's progress in school, unless there is a certain circumstance.[8]
Teachers seem to be satisfied with the instructional resources that are available to them.[9]
All of the teachers at Hope feel safe in their environment and do not feel threatened by their coworkers or their students.[10]
Notes from Student Surveys: (kids surveyed were only in fourth and fifth grades) (2007-2008)
Research: Hope Elementary School
Author:Jaime Botelho
District: Scituate
School: Elementary
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A. Information Works
When you researched the community and district, you were provided tables to help with the task of making sense of the various graphs available on Information Works site. For your school report, you should make sense of the data one your own. Remember that you can email your instructor if you have any difficulties.To research your school, you should consider the questions about schools that we brainstormed in class and decide on some questions that YOU think should be answered in your description of your school You should research at least four of the indicators on the school report page for your school to gather information that you feel will serve as evidence for your description.
Questions that you would like to find answers for:
~What is the environment like inside the school?
- classroom/academic/learning
- social
- safety
~Location?~Student:faculty?
~Demographics?
- gender
- race
- SES (poverty)
~Funding?~Extra Curricular Activities- Music, Arts, Sports
~Special Programs (voacational, arts, etc.)
~Facilities (good/bad, Age Access, Conditions: # of janitors on staff, cleanliness)
1. Info Works School Report: Assessments
Data: [2]
Grade 3 Assesments
Proficient
Grade 4 Assessment
Grade 5 Assessment
Performance Progress for all Test Grades at Hope
Performance Progress for all Test Grades in Rhode Island Elementary
2. Info Works school report: Accountability
Data:[3]
Index Scores
Participation Rates and Targets
Attendance Rate and Target
3. Race and Ethnicity
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Data:
Summary statement: The race and ethnicity of the students at Hope Elementary is mostly white with only 1% being Asian. This information can be based on the race and ethnicity found in Scituate as a whole. The majority of the people residing in Scituate are white and just a few are Asian or African American,
4. Connectedness
Data:[5]Summary statement: Overall at Hope Elementary school the students and parents feel involved and the teachers get along well with one another. The majority of the student population get along well with the other students there is a small portion that does not,
B. SALT Reports
In addition to survey data reported in Information Works, the SALT Surveys and the SALT visit report provides an "on the ground" description of what a group of visiting evaluators found while visiting the school for several days. After learning more about the SALT cycle from the link above, review the most recent report for your school and summarize what you find:Data of last SALT visit: 1999-2000
Notes from Teacher Surveys: (2007-2008)
- Teachers gave a 4.3 out of 5.0 on positive work climate (most of the time) [6]
- About 3/4 of the teachers that teach at Hope have a masters degree and the rest have a bachelors degree
- Most of the teachers have experience mostly in just elementary school[7]
- Teachers contact parents several times a year at Hope to keep them up to date with their child's progress in school, unless there is a certain circumstance.[8]
- Teachers seem to be satisfied with the instructional resources that are available to them.[9]
- All of the teachers at Hope feel safe in their environment and do not feel threatened by their coworkers or their students.[10]
Notes from Student Surveys: (kids surveyed were only in fourth and fifth grades) (2007-2008)Notes from complete SALT visit Report: